[GRASS-user] Best format for exporting raster data

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 31/08/10 15:38, Markus Neteler wrote:
> hi Rainer,

Hi Markus,

> 
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> I am creating a huge amount of raster layers during my simulations, and
>> I would like to archive then to enable further analysis. At the moment I
>> am leaving them in the grass database and compress the whole mapset into
>> a tar.gz file. But this is rather cumbersome, if I want to extract some
>> selected layers and analyse them further (my analysis is done in R).
> 
> Wht don't you simple use the R-GRASS interface?

I do - but I haven't mentioned it, after completing the simulation I
want to compress the data to save space.

> 
>> Therefore I would like to export the created layers while the simulation
>> is running and to delete them from the grass database.
>> My question: what is the best format for this?
>> It should :
>> - - contain all the information contained in the raster layer in the grass
>> mapset
>> - - be readable by at least gdal
>> - - be preferably compressed (but I can compress them after export)
> 
> I would leave it in GRASS and use the R-GRASS interface and/or the
> GDAL-GRASS plugin. See the Wiki for details.

I am doing that already - but I don't think that works when I have the
grass mapset compressed as a .tar.gz?

Cheers,

Rainer


> 
> Cheers
> Markus


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